“But this is a virus that came from China. Something that’s unexpected. Obviously when you’re in the political world, there are those things that you can control, there are those things that you can’t.”
—White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Sunday on ABC’s This Week. [That’s it? “There are those things that you can control, there are those things that you can’t”? That’s the best Donald Trump’s chief of staff has to offer? He may wish to consult with countries like South Korea, Finland, Norway, Thailand, Iceland and a couple dozen others who seem to have a little better grip on how to handle a pandemic.]
“Citizens are concerned that the Administration has deployed a secret police force, not to investigate crimes but to intimidate individuals it views as political adversaries, and that the use of these tactics will proliferate throughout the country.”
—Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), who has asked for an investigation into the use of federal troops in Portland.
“It’s hard to see how more weapons in a charged environment will help keep things safer when it seems to do more to escalate situations,”
—Austin, Texas City Council member Jimmy Flannigan, on Donald Trump’s decision to send even more federal storm troopers to Portland in the name of law and order.
“It makes me mad that the company got the money but we are still out of a job.”
—Toimas Garcia, formerly a serve at Buca di Beppo in Albuquerque, of his employer, part of Earl Enterprises of Orlando that received Paycheck Protection Plan SBA (forgivable) SBA loans of up to $54 million but have not re-hired employees. [The Fairmont Grand Del Mar in San Diego, a luxury hotel owned by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband, received $6.4 million but hundreds of its workers remain unemployed and unpaid.]
“About as useful as Jindal’s sand berm.”
—LouisianaVoice reader, comparing Trump’s “indestructible” border wall, which collapsed from the winds of Tropical Storm Hanna, to Bobby Jindal’s brilliant plan (against engineers’ advice) for building sand berms to stem the spread of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. [The berms disappeared into the Gulf waters, along with tens of thousands of dollars-worth of heavy equipment brought in to construct the berms. How much did that section of wall cost again?]
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I thought the collapse of the “Trump Vanity Wall Mexico Did NOT Pay For” was very news worthy….thank you for mentioning it….MSM has been strangely quiet on this for some strange reason…? Your other quotes are boggling my mind which is usual in dealing with Trump stunts, dangerous tho they may be. I will cogitate on them later.
The MSM has apparently been successfully cowed by President Trump, plus they have a base of advertisers they can’t financially afford to alienate. When you add the fact 40% of the population doesn’t believe what they report, but prefers listening to highly paid blowhards like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, the existence of trusted news sources simply reporting facts begins to vanish – exactly what this administration and the Republican party prefers. I think CNN and MSNBC attempt to be diligent, but they are preaching to the choir. Fox choir members dismiss everything they say as liberal claptrap, even when they simply show President Trump, Senator McConnell, et al making unedited, unaltered statements. All our freedoms are being eroded and 40 percent of the population think it’s fine. The mind boggles.